(MY COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE LIST OF) <br>THE GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE

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1900s

1900
Joan of Arc
Dir: Georges Méliès
1901
Bluebeard
Dir: Georges Méliès

1902
A Trip to the Moon
Dir: Georges Méliès

1903
The Grain Train Robbery
Dir: Edwin S. Porter

1904
Faust and Marguerite
Dir: Georges Méliès

1905
The Night Before Christmas
Dir: Edwin S. Porter

1906
The Merry Frolics of Satan
Dir: Georges Méliès

1907
The Haunted Hotel
Dir: J. Stuart Blackton

1908
Fantasmagorie
Dir: Emile Cohl

1909
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dir: J. Stuart Blackton

1910
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Dir: Edwin S. Porter

1910s

1911
L'Inerno
Dir: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro

1912
Friends
Dir: D.W. Griffiths

1913
Fantomas
Dir: Louis Feuillade

1914
Cabiria
Dir: Giovanni Pastrone

1915
The Birth of a Nation
Dir: D.W. Griffith

1916
Intolerance
Dir: D.W. Griffith

1917
The Immigrant
Dir: Charles Chaplin

1918
Hearts of the World
Dir: D.W. Griffith

1919
Broken Blossoms
Dir: D.W. Griffith

1920s

1920
# 5.
One Week
Dir: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton

# 4.
The Penalty
Dir: Wallace Worsley

# 3.
The Last of the Mohicans
Dir: Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur

# 2.
The Golem
Dir: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese

# 1.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Dir: Robert Wiene

1921

# 5.
The Kid
Dir: Charles Chaplin

# 4.
Orphans of the Storm
Dir: D.W. Griffith

# 3.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Dir: Rex Ingram

# 2.
Leaves from Satan's Book
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer

# 1.
The Phantom Carriage
Dir: Victor Sjöström

1922

# 5.
Robin Hood
Dir: Allan Dwan

# 4.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dir: Fritz Lang

# 3.
Nanook of the North
Dir: Robert Flaherty

# 2.
Nosferatu
Dir: F. W. Murnau

# 1.
Haxan
Dir: Benjamin Christensen

1923

# 5.
Salome
Dir: Charles Bryant

# 4.
Our Hospitality
Dir: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton

# 3.
The Covered Wagon
Dir: Emerson Hough, Jack Cunningham

# 2.
The Ten Commandments
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille

# 1.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dir: Wallace Worsley

1924

# 5.
The Thief of Bagdad
Dir: Raoul Walsh

# 4.
He Who Gets Slapped
Dir: Victor Sjöström

# 3.
The Last Laugh
Dir: F. W. Murnau

# 2.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Dir: Lev Kuleshov

# 1.
Greed
Dir: Erich von Stroheim

1925

# 5.
The Phantom of the Opera
Dir: Rupert Julian

# 4.
The Big Parade
Dir: King Vidor

# 3.
The Gold Rush
Dir: Charles Chaplin

# 2.
Strike
Dir: Sergei Eisenstein

# 1.
Battleship Potemkin
Dir: Sergei Eisenstein

1926

# 5.
Battlign Butler
Dir: Buster Keaton

# 4.
Faust
Dir: F. W. Murnau

# 3.
A Page of Madness
Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa

# 2.
The General
Dir: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton

# 1.
Ménilmontant
Dir: Dimitri Kirsanoff

1927

# 5.
Metropolis
Dir: Fritz Lang

# 4.
Napoleon
Dir: Abel Gance

# 3.
Wings
Dir: Willian A Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast

# 2.
The Lodger, A Story of the London Fog
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 1.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Dir: F. W. Murnau

1928

# 5.
The Crowd
Dir: King Vidor

# 4.
Underworld
Dir: Josef von Sternberg

# 3.
The Cameraman
Dir: Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick

# 2.
The Last Command
Dir: Josef von Sternberg

# 1.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer

1929

# 5.
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
Dir: Hanns Schwarz

# 4.
A Cottage on Dartmoor
Dir: Anthony Asquith

# 3.
Un chien andalou
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 2.
Man with a Movie Camera
Dir: Dziga Vertov

# 1.
Pandora's Box
Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

THE 1930s

1930
# 10.
The Dawn Patrol
Dir: Howard Hawks

# 9.
The Blood of a Poet
Dir: Jean Cocteau

# 8.
Morocco
Dir: Josef von Sternberg

# 7.
Under the Roofs of Paris
Dir: Rene Clair

# 6.
L'Age d'Or
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 5.
Earth
Dir: Oleksandr Dovzhenko

# 4.
Animal Crackers
Dir: Victor Heerman

# 3.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Dir: Lewis Milestone

# 2.
The Blue Angel
Dir: Josef von Sternberg

# 1.
Westfront 1918
Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1931

# 10.
Night Nurse
Dir: William A. Wellman

# 9.
La chienne
Dir: Jean Renoir

# 8.
Marius
Dir: Alexander Korda

# 7.
Dishonored
Dir: Josef von Sternberg

# 6.
A nous la liberte
Dir: Rene Clair

# 5.
Little Caesar
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy

# 4.
Kameradschaft
Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

# 3.
City Lights
Dir: Charles Chaplin

# 2.
Frankenstein
Dir: James Whale

# 1.
M
Dir: Fritz Lang

1932

# 10.
Scarface
Dir: Howard Hawks

# 9.
Strange Interlude
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard

# 8.
The Most Dangerous Game
Dir: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack

# 7.
Fanny
Dir: Marc Allegret

# 6.
The Old Dark House
Dir: James Whale

# 5.
I Was Born, But...
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu

# 4.
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Dir: Jean Renoir

# 3.
A Farewell to Arms
Dir: Frank Borzage

# 2.
Vampyr
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer

# 1.
Wooden Crosses
Dir: Raymond Bernard

1933

# 10.
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Dir: Alexander Korda

# 9.
This Day and Age
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille

# 8.
Dragnet Girl
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu

# 7.
La tete d'un homme
Dir: Julien Duvivier

# 6.
Design for Living
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch

# 5.
Duck Soup
Dir: Leo McCarey

# 4.
Ecstasy
Dir: Gustav Machaty

# 3.
The Invisible Man
Dir: James Whale

# 2.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Dir: Fritz Lang

# 1.
King Kong
Dir: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack

1934

# 10.
Waltzes from Vienna
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 9.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 8.
A Story of Floating Weeds
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu

# 7.
It Happened One Night
Dir: Frank Capra

# 6.
Cleopatra
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille

# 5.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Dir: Alexander Hall

# 4.
Les Miserables
Dir: Raymond Bernard

# 3.
Imitation of Life
Dir: John M. Stahl

# 2.
The Scarlet Empress
Dir: Josef von Sternberg

# 1.
L'Atalante
Dir: Jean Vigo

1935

# 10.
The Ghost Goes West
Dir: Rene Clair

# 9.
The Devil is a Woman
Dir: Josef von Sternberg

# 8.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Dir: Frank Lloyd

# 7.
The Informer
Dir: John Ford

# 6.
Moscow Nights
Dir: Anthony Asquith

# 5.
Werewolf of London
Dir: Stuart Walker

# 4.
Anna Karenina
Dir: Clarence Brown

# 3.
A Night at the Opera
Dir: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding

# 2.
The 39 Steps
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 1.
Bride of Frankenstein
Dir: James Whale

1936

# 10.
The Plainsman
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille

# 9.
Intermezzo
Dir: Gustaf Molander

# 8.
Swing Time
Dir: George Stevens

# 7.
Sabotage
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 6.
Osaka Elegy
Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi

# 5.
Show Boat
Dir: James Whale

# 4.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Dir: Frank Capra

# 3.
Cesar
Dir: Marcel Pagnol

# 2.
Fury
Dir: Michael Curtiz

# 1.
Modern Times
Dir: Charlie Chaplin

1937

# 10.
Elephant Boy
Dir: Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda

# 9.
The Life of Emile Zola
Dir: William Dieterle

# 8.
Seventh Heaven
Dir: Henry King

# 7.
King Galahad
Dir: Michael Curtiz

# 6.
Dead End
Dir: William Wyler

# 5.
A Day at the Races
Dir: Sam Wood

# 4.
Pepe le Moko
Dir: Julien Duvivier

# 3.
Lost Horizon
Dir: Frank Capra

# 2.
Grand Illusio
n Dir: Jean Renoir

# 1.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Dir: William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen

1938

# 10.
Olympia
Dir: Leni Riefenstahl

# 9.
Pygmalion
Dir: Anthony Asquith

# 8.
Boys Town
Dir: Norman Taurog

# 7.
Port of Shadows
Dir: Marcel Carne

# 6.
La bete humaine
Dir: Jean Renoir

# 5.
Sidewalks of London
Dir: Tim Whelan

# 4.
J'accuse!
Dir: Abel Gance

# 3.
Angels with Dirty Faces
Dir: Michael Curtiz

# 2.
The Lady Vanishes
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 1.
Alexander Nevsky
Dir: Sergei Eisenstein

1939

# 10.
Jamaica Inn
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 9.
Dark Victory
Dir: Edmund Goulding

# 8.
Ninotchka
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch

# 7.
Stagecoach
Dir: John Ford

# 6.
Only Angels Have Wings
Dir: Howard Hawks

# 5.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Dir: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin

# 4.
The Women
Dir: George Cukor

# 3.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dir: Frank Capra

# 2.
The Wizard of Oz
Dir: Victor Fleming

# 1.
The Rules of the Game
Dir: Jean Renoir

THE 1940s

1940
# 10.
The Thief of Bagdad
Dir: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies

# 9.
Crimes at the Dark House
Dir: George King

# 8.
Night Train to Munich
Dir: Carol Reed

# 7.
Pinocchio
Dir: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen

# 6.
His Girl Friday
Dir: Howard Hawks

# 5.
The Philadelphia Story
Dir: George Cukor

# 4.
The Great Dictator
Dir: Charlie Chaplin

# 3.
Foreign Correspondent
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 2.
Rebecca
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 1.
Fantasia
Dir: Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen, et al

1941

# 10.
Cottage to Let
Dir: Anthony Asquith

# 9.
The Wolfma
Dir: Curt Siodmak

# 8.
The Maltese Falcon
Dir: John Huston

# 7.
Dumbo
Dir: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, John Elliotte

# 6.
High Sierra
Dir: Raoul Walsh

# 5.
Sergeant York
Dir: Howard Hawks

# 4.
The 47 Ronin
Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi

# 3.
Suspicion
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 2.
The Lady Eve
Dir: Preston Sturges

# 1.
Citizen Kane
Dir: Orson Welles

1942

# 10.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Dir: William Keighley

# 9.
Reap the Wild Wind
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille

# 8.
To Be or Not to Be
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch

# 7.
Bambi
Dir: David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright

# 6.
Saboteur
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 5.
Woman of the Year
Dir: George Stevens

# 4.
The Gold Rush
Dir: Charlie Chaplin

# 3.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Dir: Orson Welles

# 2.
Cat People
Dir: Jacques Tourneur

# 1.
Casablanca
Dir: Michael Curtiz

1943

# 10.
This Land is Mine
Dir: Jean Renoir

# 9.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

# 8.
The Leopard Man
Dir: Jacques Tourneur

# 7.
Jane Eyre
Dir: Robert Stevenson

# 6.
Le Corbeau
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot

# 5.
The Seventh Victim
Dir: Mark Robson

# 4.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Dir: Sam Wood

# 3.
The Ox-Bow Incident
Dir: William A. Wellman

# 2.
Day of Wrath
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer

# 1.
Shadow of a Doubt
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

1944

# 10.
The Uninvited
Dir: Lewis Allen

# 9.
Gaslight
Dir: George Cukor

# 8.
The Children Are Watching Us
Dir: Vittorio De Sica

# 7.
The Curse of the Cat People
Dir: Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise

# 6.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Dir: Frank Capra

# 5.
Laura
Dir: Otto Preminger

# 4.
Double Indemnity
Dir: Billy Wilder

# 3.
Lifeboat
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 2.
Henry V
Dir: Laurence Olivier

# 1.
Ivan the Terrible, Part 1
Dir: Sergei Eisenstein

1945

# 10.
The House on 92nd Street
Dir: Henry Hathaway

# 9.
Spellbound
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 8.
The Body Snatcher
Dir: Robert Wise

# 7.
Brief Encounter
Dir: David Lean

# 6.
I Know Where I'm Going!
Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

# 5.
Dead of Night
Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer

# 4.
Mildred Pierce
Dir: Michael Curtiz

# 3.
The Lost Weekend
Dir: Billy Wilder

# 2.
Rome Open City
Dir: Roberto Rossellini

# 1.
Children of Paradise
Dir: Marcel Carne

1946

# 10.
The Spiral Staircase
Dir: Robert Siodmak

# 9.
A Matter of Life and Death
Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

# 8.
The Blue Dahlia
Dir: George Marshall

# 7.
The Stranger
Dir: Orson Welles

# 6.
Paisan
Dir: Roberto Rossellini

# 5.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Dir: William Wyler

# 4.
Great Expectations
Dir: David Lean

# 3.
Ivan the Terrible, Part 2
Dir: Sergei Eisenstein

# 2.
Beauty and the Beast
Dir: Jean Cocteau

# 1.
Notorious
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

1947

# 10.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

# 9.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Dir: Roy Del Ruth

# 8.
Mourning Becomes Electra
Dir: Dudley Nichols

# 7.
The Paradine Case
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 6.
Out of the Past
Dir: Jacques Tourneur

# 5.
Dark Passage
Dir: Delmer Daves

# 4.
Monsieur Verdoux
Dir: Charles Chaplin

# 3.
The Lady from Shanghai
Dir: Orson Welles

# 2.
Nightmare Alley
Dir: Edmund Goulding

# 1.
Black Narcissus
Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

1948

# 10.
The Naked City
Dir: Jules Dassin

# 9.
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Dir: John Huston

# 8.
A Foreign Affair
Dir: Billy Wilder

# 7.
Drunken Angel
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 6.
Bicycle Thieves
Dir: Vittorio De Sica

# 5.
Macbeth
Dir: Orson Welles

# 4.
Hamlet
Dir: Laurence Olivier

# 3.
Rope
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 2.
Germany Year Zero
Dir: Roberto Rossellini

# 1.
The Red Shoes
Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

1949

# 10.
All the King's Men
Dir: Robert Rossen

# 9.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Dir: Robert Hamer

# 8.
East Side, West Side
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy

# 7.
A Letter to Three Wives
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

# 6.
White Heat
Dir: Raoul Walsh

# 5.
Mighty Joe Young
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack

# 4.
Jour de fete
Dir: Jacques Tati

# 3.
Stray Dog
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 2.
The Third Man
Dir: Carol Reed

# 1.
Late Spring
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu

THE 1950s

1950
# 10.
Les enfants terribles
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville

# 9.
Variety Lights
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 8.
In a Lonely Place
Dir: Nicholas Ray

# 7.
Stromboli
Dir: Roberto Rossellini

# 6.
Stage Fright
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 5.
The Asphalt Jungle
Dir: John Huston

# 4.
All About Eve
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

# 3.
Cinderella
Dir: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi

# 2.
Rashomon
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 1.
Sunset Boulevard
Dir: Billy Wilder

1951

# 10.
The Lavander Hill Mob
Dir: Charles Crichton

# 9.
A Place in the Sun
Dir: George Stevens

# 8.
Early Summer
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu

# 7.
The Idiot
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 6.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Dir: Elia Kazan

# 5.
The Thing From Another World
Dir: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks

# 4.
The Tales of Hoffmann
Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

# 3.
Alice in Wonderland
Dir: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi

# 2.
Othello
Dir: Orson Welles

# 1.
Strangers on a Train
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

1952

# 10.
The Pickwick Papers
Dir: Noel Langley

# 9.
Ivanhoe
Dir: Richard Thorpe

# 8.
Singin' in the Rain
Dir: Stanley Donen

# 7.
Casque d'Or
Dir: Jacques Becker

# 6.
The Life of Oharu
Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi

# 5.
Umberto D.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica

# 4.
The White Sheik
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 3.
High Noon
Dir: Fred Zinnemann

# 2.
Forbidden Games
Dir: Rene Clement

# 1.
Ikiru
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

1953

# 10.
Roman Holiday
Dir: William Wyler

# 9.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Dir: Howard Hawks

# 8.
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Dir: Eugene Lourie

# 7.
The Naked Spur
Dir: Anthony Mann

# 6.
From Here to Eternity
Dir: Fred Zinnemann

# 5.
Sawdust and Tinsel
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 4.
Ugetsu
Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi

# 3.
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Dir: Jacques Tati

# 2.
Tokyo Story
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu

# 1.
Wages of Fear
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot

1954

# 10.
A Star is Born
Dir: George Cukor

# 9.
Journey to Italy
Dir: Roberto Rossellini

# 8.
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Dir: Kenneth Anger

# 7.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Dir: Hiroshi Inagaki

# 6.
Godzilla
Dir: Ishiro Honda

# 5.
La Strada
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 4.
On the Waterfront
Dir: Elia Kazan

# 3.
Seven Samurai
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 2.
Sansho the Bailiff
Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi

# 1.
Rear Window
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

1955

# 10.
Pather Panchali
Dir: Satyajit Ray

# 9.
Blackboard Jungle
Dir: Richard Brooks

# 8.
Mr. Arkadin
Dir: Orson Welles

# 7.
Summertime
Dir: David Lean

# 6.
Diabolique
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot

# 5.
Bad Day at Black Rock
Dir: John Sturges

# 4.
Rebel Without a Cause
Dir: Nicholas Ray

# 3.
To Catch a Thief
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 2.
The Night of the Hunter
Dir: Charles Laughton

# 1.
Ordet
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer

1956

# 10.
The Harder They Fall
Dir: Mark Robson

# 9.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Dir: Don Siegel

# 8.
Friendly Persuasion
Dir: William Wyler

# 7.
The Killing
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

# 6.
Written on the Wind
Dir: Douglas Sirk

# 5.
Bob le flambeur
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville

# 4.
The Searchers
Dir: John Ford

# 3.
Crazed Fruit
Dir: Ko Nakahira

# 2.
Aparajito
Dir: Satyajit Ray

# 1.
Night and Fog
Dir: Alain Resnais

1957

# 10.
Man of a Thousand Faces
Dir: Joseph Pevney

# 9.
The Lower Depths
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 8.
Sweet Smell of Success
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick

# 7.
The Cranes Are Flying
Dir: Mikhail Kalatozov

# 6.
Nights of Cabiria
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 5.
Paths of Glory
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

# 4.
12 Angry Men
Dir: Sidney Lumet

# 3.
The Seventh Seal
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 2.
Wild Strawberries
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 1.
Throne of Blood
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

1958

# 10.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Dir: Mark Robson

# 9.
High School Confidential
Dir: Jack Arnold

# 8.
Indiscreet
Dir: Stanley Donen

# 7.
Dracula
Dir: Terence Fisher

# 6.
God's Little Acre
Dir: Anthony Mann

# 5.
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Dir: Mario Monicelli

# 4.
Mon Oncle
Dir: Jacques Tati

# 3.
Ashes and Diamonds
Dir: Andrzej Wajda

# 2.
Touch of Evil
Dir: Orson Welles

# 1.
Vertigo
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

1959

# 10.
Compulsion
Dir: Richard Fleischer

# 9.
Imitation of Life
Dir: Douglas Sirk

# 8.
Anatomy of a Murder
Dir: Otto Preminger

# 7.
North by Northwest
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 6.
Sleeping Beauty
Dir: Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske

# 5.
Black Orpheus
Dir: Marcel Camus

# 4.
The 400 Blows
Dir: Francois Truffaut

# 3.
Shadows
Dir: John Cassavetes

# 2.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Dir: Masaki Kobayashi

# 1.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Dir: Alain Resnais

THE 1960s

1960
# 10.
Zazie dans le Metro
Dir: Louis Malle

# 9.
Eyes Without a Face
Dir: Georges Franju

# 8.
The Apartment
Dir: Billy Wilder

# 7.
Night and Fog in Japan
Dir: Nagisa Oshima

# 6.
The Naked Island
Dir: Kaneto Shindo

# 5.
Psycho
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 4.
Peeping Tom
Dir: Michael Powell

# 3.
The Virgin Spring
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 2.
L’Avventura
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni

# 1.
La Dolce Vita
Dir: Federico Fellini

1961

# 10.
The Misfits
Dir: John Huston

# 9.
Last Year at Marienbad
Dir: Alain Resnais

# 8.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Dir: Masaki Kobayashi

# 7.
Dog Star Man
Dir: Stan Brakhage

# 6.
Pigs and Battleships
Dir: Shohei Imamura

# 5.
Yojimbo
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 4.
The Hustler
Dir: Robert Rossen

# 3.
Viridiana
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 2.
La Notte
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni

# 1.
Through a Glass Darkly
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

1962

# 10.
Cleo from 5 to 7
Dir: Agnes Varda

# 9.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dir: Robert Mulligan

# 8.
Vivre sa vie
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard

# 7.
The Exterminating Angel
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 6.
Salvatore Giuliano
Dir: Francesco Rosi

# 5.
Sundays and Cybele
Dir: Serge Bourguignon

# 4.
Ivan's Childhood
Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky

# 3.
Harakiri
Dir: Masaki Kobayashi

# 2.
Jules and Jim
Dir: Francois Truffaut

# 1.
L'Eclisse
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni

1963

# 10.
Billy Liar
Dir: John Schlesinger

# 9.
The Birds
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 8.
Muriel
Dir: Alain Resnais

# 7.
The Leopard
Dir: Luchino Visconti

# 6.
Charade
Dir: Stanley Donen

# 5.
The Silence
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 4.
Contempt
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard

# 3.
The Insect Woman
Dir: Shohei Imamura

# 2.
High and Low
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 1.
8 1/2
Dir: Federico Fellini

1964

# 10.
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Dir: Robert Aldrich

# 9.
Diary of a Chambermaid
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 8.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Dir: Bryan Forbes

# 7.
The Killers
Dir: Don Siegel

# 6.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

# 5.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Dir: Jacques Demy

# 4.
Gertrud
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer

# 3.
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

# 2.
Black Sun
Dir: Koreyoshi Kurahara

# 1.
Onibaba
Dir: Kaneto Shindo

1965

# 10.
Libido
Dir: Ernesto Gastaldi, Vittorio Salerno

# 9.
Repulsion
Dir: Roman Polanski

# 8.
Mirage
Dir: Edward Dmytryk

# 7.
The Shop on Main Street
Dir: Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos

# 6.
The Possessed
Dir: Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini

# 5.
Red Beard
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 4.
Othello
Dir: Stuart Burge

# 3.
Juliet of the Spirits
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 2.
Le Bonheur
Dir: Agnes Varda

# 1.
Pierrot le Fou
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard

1966

# 10.
This Property is Condemned
Dir: Sydney Pollack

# 9.
Chimes at Midnight
Dir: Orson Welles

# 8.
Torn Curtain
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

# 7.
Au Hazard Balthazar
Dir: Robert Bresson

# 6.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Dir: Mike Nichols

# 5.
War and Peace
Dir: Sergey Bondarchuk

# 4.
The Battle of Algiers
Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo

# 3.
Blow-Up
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni

# 2.
Persona
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 1.
Andrei Rublev
Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky

1967

# 10.
Branded to Kill
Dir: Seijun Suzuki

# 9.
Cool Hand Luke
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg

# 8.
Belle de Jour
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 7.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Dir: Stanley Kramer

# 6.
Titicut Follies
Dir: Frederick Wiseman

# 5.
In the Heat of the Night
Dir: Norman Jewison

# 4.
Playtime
Dir: Jacques Tati

# 3.
Marketa Lazarova
Dir: Frantisek Vlacil

# 2.
Bonnie and Clyde
Dir: Arthur Penn

# 1.
Weekend
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard

1968

# 10.
Faces
Dir: John Cassavetes

# 9.
Performance
Dir: Nicolas Roeg

# 8.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Dir: Sergio Leone

# 7.
Spider Baby: or, the Maddest Story Ever Told
Dir: Jack Hill

# 6.
The Bride Wore Black
Dir: Francois Truffaut

# 5.
Shame
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 4.
Death by Hanging
Dir: Nagisa Oshima

# 3.
Night of the Living Dead
Dir: George Romero

# 2.
Monterey Pop
Dir: D.A. Pennebaker

# 1.
Stolen Kisses
Dir: Francois Truffaut

1969

# 10.
Z
Dir: Costa-Gavras)

# 9.
The Color of Pomegranates
Dir: Sergei Parajanov

# 8.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Dir: Sydney Pollack

# 7.
Mississippi Mermaid
Dir: Francois Truffaut

# 6.
The Damned
Dir: Luchino Visconti

# 5.
Eros + Massacre
Dir: Yoshishige Yoshida

# 4.
Double Suicide
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda

# 3.
Army of Shadows
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville

# 2.
The Wild Bunch
Dir: Sam Peckinpah

# 1.
Porcile
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

THE 1970s

1970
# 10.
Le Cercle Rouge
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville

# 9.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Dir: Dario Argento

# 8.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Dir: Elio Petri

# 7.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Dir: Jaromil Jires

# 6.
Baal
Dir: Volker Schlondorff

# 5.
Dodes'ka-den
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 4.
Black Panthers
Dir: Agnes Varda

# 3.
One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away
Dir: Kresimir Golik

# 2.
Gimme Shelter
Dir: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin

# 1.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

1971

# 10.
Wake in Fright
Dir: Ted Kotcheff

# 9.
Minnie and Moskowitz
Dir: John Cassavetes

# 8.
Macbeth
Dir: Roman Polanski

# 7.
The Last Picture Show
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich

# 6.
The Devils
Dir: Ken Russell

# 5.
Trafic
Dir: Jacques Tati

# 4.
Walkabout
Dir: Nicolas Roeg

# 3.
A Clockwork Orange
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

# 2.
The French Connection
Dir: William Friedkin

# 1.
Straw Dogs
Dir: Sam Peckinpah

1972

# 10.
The Canterbury Tales
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

# 9.
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Dir: Sergio Martino

# 8.
Hotel Monterey
Dir: Chantal Akerman

# 7.
Aguirre the Wrath of God
Dir: Werner Herzog

# 6.
Don't Play Us Cheap
Dir: Melvin Van Peebles

# 5.
Roma
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 4.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 3.
The Godfather
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola

# 2.
Solaris
Dir: Andrei Tarkovski

# 1.
Cries and Whispers
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

1973

# 10.
Scarecrow
Dir: Jerry Schatzberg

# 9.
Don't Look Now
Dir: Nicolas Roeg

# 8.
Badlands
Dir: Terrence Malick

# 7.
The Spirit of the Beehive
Dir: Víctor Erice

# 6.
Amarcord
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 5.
The Exorcist
Dir: William Friedkin

# 4.
Serpico
Dir: Sidney Lumet

# 3.
Scenes from a Marriage
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 2.
The Wicker Man
Dir: Robin Hardy

# 1.
Day for Night
Dir: Francois Truffaut

1974

# 10.
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait
Dir: Barbet Schroeder

# 9.
The Phantom of Liberty
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 8.
The Clockmaker
Dir: Bertrand Tavernier

# 7.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

# 6.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Dir: Martin Scorsese

# 5.
The Conversation
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola

# 4.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Dir: Tobe Hooper

# 3.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Dir: Sam Peckinpah

# 2.
Chinatown
Dir: Roman Polanski

# 1.
A Woman Under the Influence
Dir: John Cassavetes

1975

# 10.
Overlord
Dir: Stuart Cooper

# 9.
Adoption
Dir: Marta Meszaros

# 8.
Seven Beauties
Dir: Lina Wertmuller

# 7.
Welfare
Dir: Frederick Wiseman

# 6.
Jaws
Dir: Steven Spielberg

# 5.
Dog Day Afternoon
Dir: Sidney Lumet

# 4.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dir: Milos Forman

# 3.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Dir: Peter Weir

# 2.
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

# 1.
Mirror
Dir: Andrei Tarkovski

1976

# 10.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Dir: Paul Mazursky

# 9.
Heart of Glass
Dir: Werner Herzog

# 8.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Dir: Mitsuo Yanagimachi

# 7.
Harlan County U.S.A.
Dir: Barbara Kopple

# 6.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Dir: John Cassavetes

# 5.
Face to Face
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 4.
Small Change
Dir: Francois Truffaut

# 3.
In the Realm of the Senses
Dir: Nagisa Oshima

# 2.
Taxi Driver
Dir: Martin Scorsese

# 1.
Network
Dir: Sidney Lumet

1977

# 10.
Baxter, Vera Baxter
Dir: Marguerite Duras

# 9.
Sorcerer
Dir: William Friedkin

# 8.
That Obscure Object of Desire
Dir: Luis Bunuel

# 7.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Dir: George Lucas

# 6.
House
Dir: Nobuhiko Obayashi

# 5.
The Serpent's Egg
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 4.
Suspiria
Dir: Dario Argento

# 3.
The Ascent
Dir: Larisa Shepitko

# 2.
Alambrista!
Dir: Robert M. Young

# 1.
Martin
Dir: George Romero

1978

# 10.
Interiors
Dir: Woody Allen

# 9.
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Dir: Ermanno Olmi

# 8.
Killer of Sheep
Dir: Charles Burnett

# 7.
Midnight Express
Dir: Alan Parker

# 6.
Gates of Heaven
Dir: Errol Morris

# 5.
Dawn of the Dead
Dir: George Romero

# 4.
The Deer Hunter
Dir: Michael Cimino

# 3.
Autumn Sonata
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 2.
Halloween
Dir: John Carpenter

# 1.
Empire of Passion
Dir: Nagisa Oshima

1979

# 10.
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Dir: Terry Jones

# 9.
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver

# 8.
The Adolescent
Dir: Jeanne Moreau

# 7.
The Tin Drum
Dir: Volker Schlondorff

# 6.
Vengeance is Mine
Dir: Shohei Imamura

# 5.
Scum
Dir: Alan Clarke

# 4.
All That Jazz
Dir: Bob Fosse

# 3.
Love on the Run
Dir: Francois Truffaut

# 2.
Apocalypse Now
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola

# 1.
Stalker
Dir: Andrei Tarkovski

THE 1980s

1980
# 10.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

# 9.
Heaven's Gate
Dir: Michael Cimino

# 8.
Dressed to Kill
Dir: Brian De Palma

# 7.
The Big Red One
Dir: Samuel Fuller

# 6.
Airplane!
Dir: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

# 5.
The Last Metro
Dir: Francois Truffaut

# 4.
Kagemusha
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 3.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Dir: Irvin Kershner

# 2.
The Elephant Man
Dir: David Lynch

# 1.
Raging Bull
Dir: Martin Scorsese

1981

# 10.
Vernon, Florida
Dir: Errol Morris

# 9.
Cutter's Way
Dir: Ivan Passer

# 8.
The Decline of Western Civilization
Dir: Penelope Spheeris

# 7.
Man of Iron
Dir: Andrzej Wajda

# 6.
Lola
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

# 5.
Mephisto
Dir: Istvan Szabo

# 4.
Das Boot
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen

# 3.
Body Heat
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan

# 2.
Blind Chance
Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski

# 1.
Possession
Dir: Andrzej Zulawski

1982

# 10.
She Grazed Horses on Concrete
Dir: Stefan Uher

# 9.
Night of the Shooting Stars
Dir: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

# 8.
Diner
Dir: Barry Levinson

# 7.
A Good Marriage
Dir: Eric Rohmer

# 6.
White Dog
Dir: Samuel Fuller

# 5.
Missing
Dir: Costa-Gavras

# 4.
The King of Comedy
Dir: Martin Scorsese

# 3.
Fitzcarraldo
Dir: Werner Herzog

# 2.
The Thing
Dir: John Carpenter

# 1.
Fanny and Alexander
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

1983

# 10.
Eureka
Dir: Nicolas Roeg

# 9.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Dir: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam

# 8.
The Ballad of Narayama
Dir: Shohei Imamura

# 7.
And the Ship Sails On
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 6.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Dir: Jack Clayton

# 5.
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story
Dir: Eldar Shengelaia

# 4.
Carmen
Dir: Carlos Saura

# 3.
Videodrome
Dir: David Cronenberg

# 2.
Sans Soleil
Dir: Chris Marker

# 1.
Nostalghia
Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky

1984

# 10.
Antonio Gaudi
Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara

# 9.
After the Rehearsal
Dir: Ingmar Bergman

# 8.
Paris, Texas
s Dir: Wim Wenders

# 7.
The Company of Wolves
Dir: Neil Jordan

# 6.
Starman
Dir: John Carpenter

# 5.
The Killing Fields
Dir: Roland Joffe

# 4.
Amadeus
Dir: Milos Forman

# 3.
Once Upon a Time in America
Dir: Sergio Leone

# 2.
Sixteen Candles
Dir: John Hughes

# 1.
Blood Simple
Dir: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1985

# 10.
Give the Devil His Due
Dir: Hynek Bocan

# 9.
Day of the Dead
Dir: George Romero

# 8.
The Black Cauldron
Dir: Ted Berman, Richard Rich

# 7.
Re-Animator
Dir: Stuart Gordon

# 6.
Vagabond
Dir: Agnes Varda

# 5.
After Hours
Dir: Martin Scorsese

# 4.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Dir: Paul Schrader

# 3.
Ran
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 2.
Come and See
Dir: Elem Klimov

# 1.
Shoah
Dir: Claude Lanzmann

1986

# 10.
River's Edge
Dir: Tim Hunter

# 9.
Scene of a Crime
Dir: Andre Techine

# 8.
Gothic
Dir: Ken Russell

# 7.
Mona Lisa
Dir: Neil Jordan

# 6.
Pelle the Conqueror
Dir: Bille August

# 5.
In a Glass Cage
Dir: Agustí Villaronga

# 4.
She's Gotta Have It
Dir: Spike Lee

# 3.
Round Midnight
Dir: Bertrand Tavernier

# 2.
El amor brujo
Dir: Carlos Saura

# 1.
The Sacrifice
Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky

1987

# 10.
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Dir: Kazuo Hara

# 9.
Angel Heart
Dir: Alan Parker

# 8.
The Untouchables
Dir: Brian De Palma

# 7.
Withnail and I
Dir: Bruce Robinson

# 6.
Au revoir les enfants
Dir: Louis Malle

# 5.
Intervista
Dir: Federico Fellini

# 4.
Robocop
Dir: Paul Verhoeven

# 3.
Raising Arizona
Dir: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

# 2.
Broadcast News
Dir: James L. Brooks

# 1.
The Princess Bride
Dir: Rob Reiner

1988.

# 10.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Dir: Pedro Almodovar

# 9.
Mississippi Burning
Dir: Alan Parker

# 8.
Cinema Paradiso
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore

# 7.
Heathers
Dir: Michael Lehmann

# 6.
Akira
Dir: Katsuhiro Otomo

# 5.
A Fish Called Wanda
Dir: Charles Crichton

# 4.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Dir: Robert Zemeckis

# 3.
The Vanishing
Dir: George Sluizer

# 2.
TIE: A Short Film About Killing / A Short Film About Love
Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski

# 1.
Grave of the Fireflies
Dir: Isao Takahata

1989.

# 10.
A City of Sadness
Dir: Hou Hsiao-hsien

# 9.
Black Rain
Dir: Shohei Imamura

# 8.
Elephant
Dir: Alan Clarke

# 7.
Kiki's Delivery Service
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki

# 6.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Dir: Steven Soderbergh

# 5.
The Seventh Continent
Dir: Michael Haneke

# 4.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Dir: Pedro Almodovar

# 3.
Alice
Dir: Jan Svankmajer

# 2.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Dir: Peter Greenaway

# 1.
Do the Right Thing
Dir: Spike Lee

THE 1990s

1990
# 10.
Awakenings
Dir: Penny Marshall

# 9.
Close-Up
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami

# 8.
Europa, Europa
Dir: Agnieszka Holland

# 7.
Dreams
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

# 6.
Miller's Crossing
Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen

# 5.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Filmed in 1986; distribution withheld until 1990)
Dir: John McNaughton

# 4.
Goodfellas
Dir: Martin Scorsese

# 3.
To Sleep with Anger
Dir: Charles Burnett

# 2.
Central Park
Dir: Frederick Wiseman

# 1.
Santa Sangre
Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky

1991

# 10.
Jungle Fever
Dir: Spike Lee

# 9.
Raise the Red Lantern
Dir: Yimou Zhang

# 8.
Once Upon a Time in China
Dir: Hark Tsui

# 7.
La Belle Noiseuse
Dir: Jacques Rivette

# 6.
The Fisher King
Dir: Terry Gilliam

# 5.
JFK
Dir: Oliver Stone

# 4.
The Silence of the Lambs
Dir: Jonathan Demme

# 3.
Boyz n the Hood
Dir: John Singleton

# 2.
A Brighter Summer Day
Dir: Edward Yang

# 1.
The Double Life of Veronique
Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski

1992

# 10.
Hard Boiled
Dir: John Woo

# 9.
Benny's Video
Dir: Michael Haneke

# 8.
Man Bites Dog
Dir: Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde

# 7.
The Player
Dir: Robert Altman

# 6.
Equinox
Dir: Alan Rudolph

# 5.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with M
Dir: David Lynch

# 4.
Husbands and Wives
Dir: Woody Allen

# 3.
Life and Nothing More (And Life Goes On)
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami

# 2.
The Crying Game
Dir: Neil Jordan

# 1.
Bad Lieutenant
Dir: Abel Ferrara

1993

# 10.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Dir: Henry Selick

# 9.
Short Cuts
Dir: Robert Altman

# 8.
Cronos
Dir: Guillermo del Toro

# 7.
Dazed and Confused
Dir: Richard Linklater

# 6.
The Baby of Macon
Dir: Peter Greenaway

# 5.
Philadelphia
Dir: Jonathan Demme

# 4.
Naked
Dir: Mike Leigh

# 3.
The Piano
Dir: Jane Campion

# 2.
Schindler's List
Dir: Steven Spielberg

# 1.
Blue
Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski

1994

# 10.
The Shawshank Redemption
Dir: Frank Darabont

# 9.
Cemetery Man
Dir: Michele Soavi

# 8.
Hoop Dreams
Dir: Steve James

# 7.
Chungking Express
Dir: Wong Kar-Wai

# 6.
White
Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski

# 5.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Dir: Wes Craven

# 4.
Pulp Fiction
Dir: Quentin Tarantino

# 3.
Satantango
Dir: Bela Tarr

# 2.
Ed Wood
Dir: Tim Burton

# 1.
Heavenly Creatures
Dir: Peter Jackson

1995

# 10.
The Passion of Darkly Noon
Dir: Philip Ridley

# 9.
Clueless
Dir: Amy Heckerling

# 8.
Babe
Dir: Chris Noonan

# 7.
Seven
Dir: David Fincher

# 6.
Sense and Sensibility
Dir: Ang Lee

# 5.
Safe
Dir: Todd Haynes

# 4.
Before Sunrise
Dir: Richard Linklater

# 3.
La Haine
Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz

# 2.
Exotica
Dir: Atom Egoyan

# 1.
Red
Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski

1996

# 10.
Mars Attacks
Dir: Tim Burton

# 9.
Trainspotting
Dir: Danny Boyle

# 8.
Irma Vep
Dir: Olivier Assayas

# 7.
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Dir: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

# 6.
Hamlet
Dir: Kenneth Branagh

# 5.
Secrets & Lies
Dir: Mike Leigh

# 4.
Crash
Dir: David Cronenberg

# 3.
Bottle Rocket
Dir: Wes Anderson

# 2.
Fargo
Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen

# 1.
Breaking the Waves
Dir: Lars von Trier

1997

# 10.
Boogie Nights
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson

# 9.
The Full Monty
Dir: Peter Cattaneo

# 8.
Jackie Brown
Dir: Quentin Tarantino

# 7.
Perfect Blue
Dir: Satoshi Kon

# 6.
L.A. Confidential
Dir: Curtis Hanson

# 5.
The River
Dir: Ming-liang Tsai

# 4.
The Ice Storm
Dir: Ang Lee

# 3.
Taste of Cherry
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami

# 2.
Cure
Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

# 1.
The Sweet Hereafter
Dir: Atom Egoyan

1998

# 10.
The Dreamlife of Angels
Dir: Erick Zonca

# 9.
Run Lola Run
Dir: Tom Tykwer

# 8.
The Last Days of Disco
Dir: Whit Stillman

# 7.
I Stand Alone
Dir: Gaspar Noe

# 6.
The Hole
Dir: Ming-liang Tsai

# 5.
Gods and Monsters
Dir: Bill Condon

# 4.
Shakespeare in Love
Dir: John Madden

# 3.
Ringu
Dir: Hideo Nakata

# 2.
Rushmore
Dir: Wes Anderson

# 1.
Happiness
Dir: Todd Solondz

1999

# 10.
Beau Travail
Dir: Claire Denis

# 9.
Rosetta
Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

# 8.
All About My Mother
Dir: Pedro Almodovar

# 7.
The Blair Witch Project
Dir: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez

# 6.
Princess Mononoke
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki

# 5.
American Beauty
Dir: Sam Mendes

# 4.
Audition
Dir: Takashi Miike

# 3.
Magnolia
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson

# 2.
The Straight Story
Dir: David Lynch

# 1.
Eyes Wide Shut
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

THE 2000s

2000
# 10.
The Werckmeister Harmonies
Dir: Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky

# 9.
Songs from the Second Floor
Dir: Roy Andersson

# 8.
Timecode
Dir: Mike Figgis

# 7.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Dir: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

# 6.
Yi Yi: A One and a Two...
Dir: Edward Yang

# 5.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dir: Ang Lee

# 4.
Almost Famous
Dir: Cameron Crowe

# 3.
In the Mood for Love
Dir: Wong Kar-Wai

# 2.
Dancer in the Dark
Dir: Lars von Trier

# 1.
Amores Perros
Dir: Alejandro G. Inarritu

2001

# 10.
Bully
Dir: Larry Clark

# 9.
In the Bedroom
Dir: Todd Field

# 8.
Spirited Away
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki

# 7.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Dir: Steven Spielberg

# 6.
The Piano Teacher
Dir: Michael Haneke

# 5.
Y tu mama tambien
Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

# 4.
Millenium Actress
Dir: Satoshi Kon

# 3.
Ghost World
Dir: Terry Zwigoff

# 2.
Mulholland Dr.
Dir: David Lynch

# 1.
Pulse
Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

2002

# 10.
Minority Report
Dir: Steven Spielberg

# 9.
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Dir: Phillip Noyce

# 8.
Lilya 4-ever
Dir: Lukas Moodysson

# 7.
Talk to Her
Dir: Pedro Almodovar

# 6.
Irreversible
Dir: Gaspar Noe

# 5.
Adaptation
Dir: Spike Jonze

# 4.
Dark Water
Dir: Hideo Nakata

# 3.
Morvern Callar
Dir: Lynne Ramsay

# 2.
City of God
Dir: Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund

# 1.
Russian Ark
Dir: Alexander Sokurov

2003

# 10.
Save the Green Planet
Dir: Jang Joon-hwan

# 9.
I'm Not Scared
Dir: Gabriele Salvatores

# 8.
Cafe Lumiere
Dir: Hsiao-Hsien Hou

# 7.
Elephant
Dir: Gus Van Sant

# 6.
Oldboy
Dir: Park Chan-wook

# 5.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Dir: Kim Ki-duk

# 4.
Dogville
Dir: Lars von Trier

# 3.
Capturing the Friedmans
Dir: Andrew Jarecki

# 2.
Dying at Grace
Dir: Allan King

# 1.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Dir: Ming-liang Tsai

2004

# 10.
Maria Full of Grace
Dir: Joshua Marston

# 9.
Primer
Dir: Shane Carruth

# 8.
Yesterday
Dir: Darrell Roodt

# 7.
Before Sunset
Dir: Richard Linklater

# 6.
Closer
Dir: Mike Nichols

# 5.
Howl's Moving Castle
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki

# 4.
Sideways
Dir: Alexander Payne

# 3.
Mean Girls
Dir: Mark Waters

# 2.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dir: Michel Gondry

# 1.
Tarnation
Dir: Jonathan Caouette

2005

# 10.
Grizzly Man
Dir: Werner Herzog

# 9.
Me, You and Everyone We Know
Dir: Miranda July

# 8.
Brick
Dir: Rian Johnson

# 7.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Dir: Cristi Puiu

# 6.
Capote
Dir: Bennett Miller

# 5.
The Beat My Heart Skipped
Dir: Jacques Audiard

# 4.
Palindromes
Dir: Todd Solondz

# 3.
The Proposition
Dir: John Hillcoat

# 2.
Mysterious Skin
Dir: Gregg Araki

# 1.
Lady Vengeance
Dir: Park Chan-wook

2006

# 10.
Syndromes and a Century
Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

# 9.
Inland Empire
Dir: David Lynch

# 8.
Jesus Camp
Dir: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing

# 7.
The Lives of Others
Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

# 6.
Casino Royale
Dir: Martin Campbell

# 5.
Away from Her
Dir: Sarah Polley

# 4.
Volver
Dir: Pedro Almodovar

# 3.
Tell No One
Dir: Guillaume Canet

# 2.
Children of Men
Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

# 1.
Pan's Labyrinth
Dir: Guillermo del Toro

2007

# 10.
The Mist
Dir: Frank Darabont

# 9.
Hot Fuzz
Dir: Edgar Wright

# 8.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Dir: Cristian Mungiu

# 7.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Dir: Julian Schnabel

# 6.
Encounters at the End of the World
Dir: Werner Herzog

# 5.
Zodiac
Dir: David Fincher

# 4.
Persepolis
Dir: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

# 3.
No Country for Old Men
Dir: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

# 2.
Sunshine
Dir: Danny Boyle

# 1.
There Will Be Blood
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson

2008

# 10.
Hunger
Dir: Steve McQueen

# 9.
Goodbye Solo
Dir: Ramin Bahrani

# 8.
Gomorrah
Dir: Matteo Garrone

# 7.
Waltz with Bashir
Dir: Ari Folman

# 6.
The Wrestler
Dir: Darren Aronofsky

# 5.
Tokyo Sonata
Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

# 4.
WALL-E
Dir: Andrew Stanton

# 3.
Love Exposure
Dir: Sion Sono

# 2.
Martyrs
Dir: Pascal Laugier

# 1.
Let the Right One In
Dir: Tomas Alfredson

2009

# 10.
White Material
Dir: Claire Denis

# 9.
An Education
Dir: Lone Scherfig

# 8.
Enter the Void
Dir: Gaspar Noe

# 7.
Valhalla Rising
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn

# 6.
Up
Dir: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

# 5.
Amer
Dir: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani

# 4.
A Prophet
Dir: Jacques Audiard

# 3.
Mother
Dir: Bong Joon-ho

# 2.
The White Ribbon
Dir: Michael Haneke

# 1.
Antichrist
Dir: Lars von Trier

THE 2010s

2010
# 10.
The Kids Are All Right
Dir: Lisa Cholodenko

# 9.
Black Swan
Dir: Darren Aronofsky

# 8.
Animal Kingdom
Dir: David Michod

# 7.
Shutter Island
Dir: Martin Scorsese

# 6.
Winter's Bone
Dir: Debra Granik

# 5.
El Sicario, Room 164
Dir: Gianfranco Rosi

# 4.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

# 3.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Dir: Edgar Wright

# 2.
The Social Network
Dir: David Fincher

# 1.
I Saw the Devil
Dir: Jee-woon Kim

2011

# 10.
In the Family
Dir: Patrick Wang

# 9.
Your Sister's Sister
Dir: Lynn Shelton

# 8.
A Separation
Dir: Asghar Farhadi

# 7.
Drive
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn

# 6.
Shame
Dir: Steve McQueen

# 5.
Margaret
Dir: Kenneth Lonergan

# 4.
Oslo, August 31st
Dir: Joachim Trier

# 3.
Take Shelter
Dir: Jeff Nichols

# 2.
Tyrannosaur
Dir: Paddy Considine

# 1.
Melancholia
Dir: Lars von Trier

2012

# 10.
Killer Joe
Dir: William Friedkin

# 9.
Stories We Tell
Dir: Sarah Polley

# 8.
Zero Dark Thirty
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow

# 7.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Dir: Benh Zeitlin

# 6.
Moonrise Kingdom
Dir: Wes Anderson

# 5.
Cosmopolis
Dir: David Cronenberg

# 4.
Amour
Dir: Michael Haneke

# 3.
Holy Motors
Dir: Leos Carax

# 2.
This is Not a Film
Dir: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi

# 1.
The Act of Killing
Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn

2013

# 10.
Fruitville Station
Dir: Ryan Coogler

# 9.
A Touch of Sin
Dir: Zhangke Jia

# 8.
Bastards
Dir: Claire Denis

# 7.
Short Term
12 Dir: Destin Daniel Cretton

# 6.
Francis Ha
Dir: Noah Baumbach

# 5.
Stray Dogs
Dir: Tsai Ming-liang

# 4.
Only God Forgives
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn

# 3.
Nymphomaniac
Dir: Lars von Trier

# 2.
Hard to Be a God
Dir: Aleksey German

# 1.
Blue is the Warmest Color
Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche

2014

# 10.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Dir: Roy Andersson

# 9.
Clouds of Sils Maria
Dir: Olivier Assayas

# 8.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dir: Wes Anderson

# 7.
Gone Girl
Dir: David Fincher

# 6.
Under the Skin
Dir: Jonathan Glazer

# 5.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Dir: James Gunn

# 4.
Nightcrawler
Dir: Dan Gilroy

# 3.
Life Itself
Dir: Steve James

# 2.
Boyhood
Dir: Richard Linklater

# 1.
Leviathan
Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev

2015

# 10.
Spotlight
Dir: Tom McCarthy

# 9.
Me, Earl and the Dying Girl
Dir: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

# 8.
Beasts of No Nation
Dir: Cary Joji Fukunaga

# 7.
Brooklyn
Dir: John Crowley

# 6.
Son of Saul
Dir: Laszlo Nemes

# 5.
The Assassin
Dir: Hsiao-Hsien Hou

# 4.
Ex Machina
Dir: Alex Garland

# 3.
Tangerine
Dir: Sean Baker

# 2.
Room
Dir: Lenny Abrahamson

# 1.
Mad Max: Fury Road
Dir: George Miller

2016

# 10.
Silence
Dir: Martin Scorsese

# 9.
Toni Erdmann
Dir: Maren Ade

# 8.
Hermia & Helena
Dir: Matias Pineiro

# 7.
Things to Come
Dir: Mia Hansen-Love

# 6.
Manchester by the Sea
Dir: Kenneth Lonergan

# 5.
Kedi
Dir: Ceyda Torun

# 4.
Cameraperson
Dir: Kirsten Johnson

# 3.
The Neon Demon
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn

# 2.
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Dir: Bill Morrison

# 1.
The Witch
Dir: Robert Eggers

2017

# 10.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos

# 9.
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastian Lelio

# 8.
Good Time
Dir: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

# 7.
The Florida Project
Dir: Sean Baker

# 6.
Raw
Dir: Julia Ducournau

# 5.
Okja
Dir: Bong Joon-ho

# 4.
Faces Places
Dir: Agnes Varda

# 3.
The Shape of Water
Dir: Guillermo del Toro

# 2.
The Square
Dir: Ruben Ostlund

# 1.
Lady Bird
Dir: Greta Gerwig

2018

# 10.
A Long Day's Journey Into Night
Dir: Bi Gan

# 9.
You Were Never Really Here
Dir: Lynne Ramsay

# 8.
The Death of Stalin
Dir: Armando Iannucci

# 7.
The House That Jack Built
Dir: Lars von Trier

# 6.
Burning
Dir: Lee Chang-dong

# 5.
Cold War
Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski

# 4.
Avengers: Infinity War
Dir: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

# 3.
Roma
Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

# 2.
Annihilation
Dir: Alex Garland

# 1.
Climax
Dir: Gaspar Noe

2019

# 10.
First Cow
Dir: Kelly Reichardt

# 9.
A White, White Day
Dir: Hlynur Palmason

# 8.
For Sama
Dir: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts

# 7.
Test Pattern
Dir: Shatara Michelle Ford

# 6.
American Factory
Dir: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

# 5.
Little Women
Dir: Greta Gerwig

# 4.
Atlantics
Dir: Mati Diop

# 3.
High Life
Dir: Claire Denis

# 2.
Parasite
Dir: Bong Joon-ho

# 1.
The Lighthouse
Dir: Robert Eggers

THE 2020s

2020
# 10.
Summer of 85
Dir: Francois Ozon

# 9.
Dick Johnson is Dead
Dir: Kirsten Johnson

# 8.
Time
Dir: Garrett Bradley

# 7.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Dir: Charlie Kaufman

# 6.
Da 5 Bloods
Dir: Spike Lee

# 5.
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Dir: Lili Horvat

# 4.
Ammonite
Dir: Francis Lee

# 3.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Dir: Eliza Hittman

# 2.
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Dir: Jasmila Zbanic

# 1.
Minari
Dir: Lee Isaac Chung

2021

# 10.
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Dir: Joel Coen

# 9.
Drive My Car
Dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

# 8.
Boiling Point
Dir: Philip Barantini

# 7.
Nightmare Alley
Dir: Guillermo del Toro

# 6.
Passing
Dir: Rebecca Hall

# 5.
The Harder They Fall
Dir: Jeymes Samuel

# 4.
The Green Knight
Dir: David Lowery

# 3.
The Inheritance
Dir: Ephraim Asili

# 2.
Spencer
Dir: Pablo Larraín

# 1.
Titane
Dir: Julia Ducournau

2022

# 10.
Neptune Frost
Dir: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams

# 9.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Dir: Dean Fleischer-Camp

# 8.
Introduction
Dir: Hong Sang-soo

# 7.
Happening
Dir: Audrey Diwan

# 6.
Vortex
Dir: Gaspar Noé

# 5.
Paris, 13th District
Dir: Jacques Audiard

# 4.
Flee
Dir: Jonas Poher Rasmussen

# 3.
The Northman
Dir: Robert Eggers

# 2.
Both Sides of the Blade
Dir: Claire Denis

# 1.
Memoria
Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2023

# 10.
Butterfly Vision
Dir: Maksym Nakonechnyi

# 9.
Hannah Ha Ha
Dir: Joshua Pikovsky, Jordan Tetewsky

# 8.
Alcarras
Dir: Carla Simon

# 7.
Suzume
Dir: Makoto Shinkai

# 6.
Afire
Dir: Christian Petzoid

# 5.
Godland
Dir: Hlynur Palmason

# 4.
Waiting for the Light to Change
Dir: Linh Tran

# 3.
Godzilla Minus One
Dir: Takashi Yamazaki

# 2.
Chile '76
Dir: Manuela Martelli

# 1.
Past Lives
Dir: Celine Song